KalaniBright_InterpersonalActivity2

=Tough Luck Triage= Kalani Bright Floyd Myung

Purpose
The activity is aids memory of first names while reducing anxiety. Its purpose is to break the ice by forcing (to an extent) people to act goofy.

It can be used with any adolescent/adult age group.

Time Required
10-15 minutes

Number of Participants
Minimum: 5 Optimal: 12 Maximum: 15

Supplies Needed
What do the facilitator and participants need? Cards? Newsprint to write on? Markers? Name tags? The (1-2) facilitors need an index card each, a pencil each, and a tic tac dispenser, and a list of humorous potential treatments The participants are given index cards to write names on. A small set of extra pencils are available for Handout, pencils, treatment info card (index card or print out).

Preparation
What does the facilitator need to do or make ahead of time? Print out treatment info cards. Have supplies ready. Go over instructions with group prior to starting the activity.

Introduction
Hello everyone,

Weʻre going to simulate a medical triage situtation in the country of (insert fictitious country here). The country doesnʻt have enough medical staff and it has quite a lot of strange rules. To be seen you need to be convincing in acting out how bad your malady or ailment is; you need to use your full body language and be entertaining. Since the medical evaluators evaluating your triage situation know nothing about medicine or ailments (theyʻre circus performers), anything you tell them they will believe. **One rule here, no serious medical conditions like cancer.** Youʻre to invent a medical condition or medical situation and reason why you should be seen. It can be anything and can be ficticious BUT it must somehow aid in the memory of your name. Iʻm Rihanna and I have a rhinoplasty emergency. It doesnʻt need to be about medicine. It can be about anything; Iʻm bob and a boulder rolled over my toe! We expect you to be hiding your nose or bouncing on one foot in pain if you want to be admitted.

Now once your accepted into admission is where things get strange. See the doctor doesnʻt want to help people who donʻt care about the tragedies of others they were seen before. So to be admitted, there will be a short test to see if you remember other peoples names. The doctor will ask a few questions which you are to answer. If you get them correct you will be allowed into the doctors office.

In the doctors office you will be required to help out before you can be treated. This is because the country doesnʻt fund the hospital and its free to visit. You will list the name and medical condition of everyone in triage on one side of the index card as a medical record. When you are done and have all the patients names listed along with a short word or two describing their condition hand it to the doctor to review. Workers in the Hospital are allowed to share their work and ask about other patients medical conditions.

Once the doctor has reviewed your work; your indenture to the hopsital has been completed, he will give you a treatment and write your prescribed treatment on the other side of the index card. (Unfortunately the hospital is too cheap to buy more index cards and doesnʻt care much about confidentiality, besides there are lots of workers with the same work anyway...)

Process
Step by step, describe what the facilitator and the participants will be doing. If appropriate, estimate the number of minutes each step will take.

The role playing takes place in a triage hospital of a fictional country. The hospital rules for triage are that the patient must know who the people that couldn't be helped names to be operated on because by helping you then someone else must suffer. If you don't know the other people and their names sorry...we're not going to help you until you learn more about your bedmates.

1. If the number of participants is greater than 20 divide into groups of 10 or smaller. No group should be larger than 15 participants. 2.Patient is told to select a made-up medical condition for their triage situation, their suffering from based on the letter of first name. I'm Bob I got a Bunion on my toe! Hurts! It should be light hearted and doesn't need to be an exact name or serious like I'm Mike with Multiple Sclerosis but can be I'm lisa, my leg, my leg can't walk! (She can limp around) 3.Patient takes turns and acts out the importance of their ailment and why they should be seen immediately. The more dramatic the acting the more the Medical Evaluator will hear your complaint and select you to enter surgery. I'm Carla, my carpal tunnel is killing me I'm in so much pain! Help me!!!!! Oww! 4. All patients are evaluated in order and the Medical Evaluator chooses someone from the group to go into treatment/surgery 5. Patient is asked to name some of the other hospital patients who won't be getting treated... 6. Once in the office they need to become an indentured servant until fulfilling their duty; which is to write down the names and conditions of everyone in the hospital. They are allowed to work together; ask questions. 7. Once complete they submit their work. If it is complete the doctor gives the patient a tic tac writes down the treatment on the reverse of the card, hands it to the patient, and sends the patient home to rest (they are done).
 * If that person selected can name the other members names then they can go into the doctors office
 * If not they have to stay in the hospital complaining about their injury until they are called in again

Debrief
List questions the facilitator should ask to solidify what is learned in this activity. Note: These questions are asked midway by the medical evaluator
 * Whoʻs toe got run over by a Boulder?** Bob
 * Whats Charityʻs problem?** GivingEverythingAwayʻitis
 * Please point to Rihanna and act out her ailment.** Points correctly to Rihanna and starts hiding her nose.
 * Point to the patient needed electro-shock therapy and say his name.** Points correctly and names "Eric".

Credits
Was this activity inspired by another you saw elsewhere? Give credit where it is due. I think you mentioned some sort of fallout shelter where only so many people could be seen. It gave Floyd the idea for a triage and Kalani and Floyd worked together in creating the above game.